Click on the triangles to open the menus for each grade level.
Group and Categorize with Flight (Pre-K) Aircraft Puzzles Junior Engineering Teams (Grades: K – 3) Gyrocopter Drop: Understanding Scientific Phenomena (Grades: 1 – 2)
Aircraft Puzzles Junior Engineering Teams (Grades: K – 3) Gyrocopter Drop: Understanding Scientific Phenomena (Grades: 1 – 2) Drag, Parachutes and the Candy Bomber (Grades: 2 – 3) Balloon Rockets (Grades: 2 – 4) Kite Meteorology (Grades: 2 – 4) Remote Sensing Lesson 1 (Grades: 2 – 4) Remote Sensing Lesson 2 (Grades: 2 – 4) Remote Sensing Lesson 3 (Grades: 2 – 4) Social Studies and Lit with the Tuskegee Airmen Story (Grade 3) Math with Flight Paths (Grades: 3 – 4) Sled Kite Perimeter Parallel and Perpendicular (Grades: 3 – 4) Engineering Design Challenge Straw Glider I LP (Grades: 3 – 5) Mathematics with Basic Airplane Motion (Grades: 3 – 5) Angles and Symmetry in Paper Airplanes (Grade 4) Aviation Rules: Direction, Degrees, and Altitude (Grade 4) Ohio's Contribution to Flight (Grade 4) The Wright Brothers: Twelve Seconds that Changed the World (Grade 4) Math and Science with a Flying Disc (Grades: 4 – 5)
Engineering Design Challenge Straw Glider I LP (Grades: 3 – 5) Mathematics with Basic Airplane Motion (Grades: 3 – 5) Math and Science with a Flying Disc (Grades: 4 – 5) Books & Balloons Literature Science Math (Grade 5) Changing the Center of Gravity LP (Grades: 5 – 6) Determining the Center of Gravity LP (Grades: 5 – 6) Distance, Rate and Time LP (Grades: 5 – 6) Engineering Design Challenge Aircraft Structure LP (Grades: 5 – 6) Engineering Design Challenge Propellers LP (Grades: 5 – 6) Math with Gliders (Grades: 5 – 6) Mathematics with Airlift Missions (Grades: 5 – 6) Parachutes and Drag LP (Grades: 5 – 6) Statute and Nautical Miles Conversions (Grades: 5 – 6) Mathematics with Airlift Missions - Fuel Capacity (Grades: 5 – 7) Parachutes, Circles and Pi (Grades: 5 – 7) Forces and Motion: The Bernoulli Principle and Flight (Grades: 5 – 8) Math and Science with a Model Hot Air Balloon I (Grades: 5 – 8) Neutral Buoyancy Challenge LP (Grades: 5 – 8) Summarizing Distributions with Paper Airplane Flights LP (Grades: 5 – 8) Dichotomous Keys and Aircraft Classification (Grade 6) Mathematics of Flight Glide Slope I (Grades: 6 – 7) Scale and Ratio Using Aircraft (Grades: 6 – 7) Cyber Security and Protection (Grades: 6 – 8) Engineering Design Challenge Flight Suits (Grades: 6 – 8) Engineering Design Challenge Straw Glider II LP (Grades: 6 – 8) Forces on a Wing: The Coanda Effect (Grades: 6 – 8) Math and Science with a Diamond Kite (Grades: 6 – 8) Math and Science with a Model Hot Air Balloon II (Grades: 6 – 8) Math and Science with Space Food (Grades: 6 – 8) Microgravity LP (Grades: 6 – 8) Parachutes: Surface Area or Shape (Grades: 6 – 8) Mosaic Mural Mathematics (Grades: 6 – 8) Satellite Math (Grades: 6 – 8) Scale and Ratio with Paper Airplanes (Grades: 6 – 8) Sled Kite Proportions LP (Grades: 6 – 8) Weight and Balance Forces (Grades: 6 – 8) Weight and Balance Forces Expanding Applications (Grades: 6 – 8) Science and Math with a Double-Pocket Sled Kite LP (Grades: 7 – 8) Mathematics of Flight Headwinds and Tailwinds (Grades: 7 – 8) Propellers: Forces and Energy (Grades: 7 – 8) Math and Science with a Balsa Airplane (Grades: 7 – 9) Engineering Design Challenge Create a Flying Machine (Grades: 8 – 12) Math and Science with a Fighter Kite (Grades: 8 – 12) Motion and Forces on a Boomerang (Grades: 8 – 12)
Math and Science with a Balsa Airplane (Grades: 7 – 9) Motion and Forces on a Boomerang (Grades: 8 – 12) Engineering Design Challenge Create a Flying Machine (Grades: 8 – 12) Math and Science with a Fighter Kite (Grades: 8 – 12) Centripetal Forces and Satellite Orbits (Grades: 9 – 12) Cold War Propaganda (Grades: 9 – 12) Cuban Missile Crisis LP (Grades: 9 – 12) Forces and Motion: How an Airplane Achieves Lift (Grades: 9 – 12) Gyrocopter Drop: Describing Rotary Motion (Grades: 9 – 12) Gyrocopter Drop: Producing Rotary Motion (Grades: 9 – 12) Kites and Trigonometry LP (Grades: 9 – 12) Math and Science with a Helium Balloon (Grades: 9 – 12) Math with Altitude and Atmospheric Pressure (Grades: 9 – 12) Mathematics of Flight Crosswinds (Grades: 9 – 12) Mathematics of Flight Glide Slope II (Grades: 9 – 12) Mathematics with the Altitude of an Aircraft (Grades: 9 – 12) Physics with a Catapult Airplane (Grades: 9 – 12) Propulsion and Newton's Third Law (Grades: 9 – 12) Rocket Kinematics or Energy (Grades: 9 – 12) Rocket Physics (Grades: 11 – 12)
-75 Years of Air Force Aerospace Vehicles
-75 Years of Air Force Leadership
-A Force For Good: Humanitarian Exhibit
-Blackbirds
-Close Air Support
-Cold War Aircraft
-Critters in the Museum
-Fun with Flight
-Helicopters
-Korean War Aircraft
-Launch into Space
-Memphis Belle
-MIG-Alley
-NMUSAF The First 100 Years
-Planes with animal names
-Presidential Aircraft
-Search and Rescue
-Southeast Asia War Aircraft
-Space
-USAF Acquisitions
-WWII Non-US Manufactured Aircraft
-WWII US Manufactured Aircraft
These word searches can be conducted on own at home, along with the museum’s virtual tour, or while touring the museum in-person.
A-10
A-10 353rd Fighter Squadron
A-10 353rd Fighter Squadron Patch
A-1H Skyraider
A-1H The Proud American
AC-130A Spectre
Apollo Command Module
B-1B Lancer
B-1B Lancer with Nose Art
B-1B Boss Hawg Nose Art
B-2 Spirit
B-2 Spirit with Fire and Ice artwor
Fire and Ice artwork from B-2
B-17F Memphis Belle
B-24D
B-57B Canberra
Berlin Wall sections
BF 109G-10
BF 109G -10 Nose Art
BF 109G-10 with Nose Art
C-20B
CH-3E Black Mariah
F-117A Nighthawk
F-4C
F-4C with Patch
F-15A Streak Eagle
F-86A
F-86D
F-94C
F-104 Starfighter
Gemini
HH-3E Jolly Green Giant
KC-97L Stratofreighter
Mercury
Mig-15
P-47D
P-47D with Nose Art
P-47D Nose Art
SR-71 Blackbird
SR-71 Blackbird with tail art
SR-71 Crew
Stars and Bars
Tail art from SR-71
Stumpy John Silver
Tarantula, Gecko, and Dragon Fly
Vittles the dog
X-1B
X-15A-2
XB-70 Valkyrie
XB-70 Valkyrie over Mt. Rushmore
YF12A
Box lunches can be arranged for delivery Monday - Friday through the 88th Force Support Squadron (FSS). Links to box lunch order forms are below.
All box lunch deliveries should be arranged directly between the requesting group and the 88th FSS. Please ensure that your group has a chaperone available to meet them for acceptance of the delivery outside the museum building.
*Please note that box lunch delivery is not available on Saturdays or Sundays.
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